A Thousand Dollars Repairs On Church

A THOUSAND DOLLARS REPAIRS ON CHURCH

NEWSY NOTES FROM OUR WHITMORE LAKE CORRESPONDENT

Damages to Road Between Lake and Ann Arbor--Visitors During the Heated Term

Whitmore Lake, July 8.--Mrs. R. Kind and four children, of Toledo, have leased the Stimson cottage for a month. Mr. Kind will join his family next Sunday for a week's fish. This makes the third season they have summered here and Mrs. Kind says the children are always anxious for the time to come for their Whitmore Lake outing.

J. G. Pray will commence this week to overhaul the German Lutheran church, the trustees having concluded to put $1,000 repairs on it. Tuesday Mr. Pray put a crew of carpenters at the Samuel Hammond residence and the three weeks will have it ready for occupancy.

Miss Anna Conlin, of Toledo, visited her parents today, Mr. and Mrs. John Conlin of Webster.

Miss Minnie McCourt, who has been seriously ill all winter and spring, is slowly improving and has ventured out but once in eight months.

Prof. Frank Rane, of Durham, N. H., College, has returned after a two weeks' visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. B. Rane. 

J. W. Woodham and W. J. Dolph and Misses Rosom and Smith, of Ann Arbor, were her Sunday.

George W. Sample, wife and two children have leased the Wm. Stimpson cottage for July and Mr. Sample says they have all the fish of their own catching that they can use.

The excessive rains and the fact that Horse Shoe lake outlet drain has not been cleaned out for the past 15 years has caused the Whitmore Lake and Ann Arbor road to be submerged and has also caused a loss of $500 bushels of onions and $100 worth of celery for Peter Gallagher, and a petition has been signed by 20 or 30 free holders to the Hon. Daniel Barry, county drain commissioner, to have the drain cleaned and lowered so that it will perform its intended functions and carry off the surplus water. Statistics show that every 10 years a drain without tile will fill up one foot and the condition the Horse Shoe drain is now in makes it absolutely useless.

Mr. W. D. Brown, of Minneapolis, Minn., brother of Arthur Brown, is booked here for the remainder of July, and says he is having a high old time.

Mr. Rause and wife, nephew of Henry Spiegleberg, are his guests for July.

Mr. John Taylor, merchant of Battle Creek, and wife, are here for two weeks visiting his father, John Taylor, and brother and sister, T. Frank and Kate. Mr. Taylor says he has agreed to send at least a barrel of fish daily to Battle Creek friends and is busy digging angle worms.

The most formidable candidate now talked of in this region for sheriff on the republican ticket is our wide-awake townsman, James E. Burke. Northfield township will give James a good send off, and the best recommendation any candidate can have is his home support, where he is known and appreciated.